Staying true to his nature, during a press conference this week he made a bold statement about his thoughts on the Black Lives Matter movement.

"If Black lives matter, they should matter all the time," he proclaimed.

Sherman's comments referred to crimes within the Black community committed by Black people, or "black-on-black crime" which he argues doesn't get as much attention as acts of violence involving multiple races or law enforcement.

"As a Black man, I do understand that Black lives matter, I stand for that and I believe in that wholeheartedly," Sherman said. "But I also think that there's a way to go about things and there's a way to do things and I think the issue at hand needs to be addressed internally and before we move on."

"You should never let somebody get killed — that’s somebody’s son, that’s somebody’s brother, that’s somebody’s friend. So you should always keep that in mind.”

These statements follow an incident earlier this week when Sherman passionately responded to a self-proclaimed Black Lives Matter activist who used a photo of Sherman and Marshawn Lynch to promote a racist message.

But, the acts of one extreme supporter do not reflect those of the entire movement.

Black Lives Matter, however, focuses a lot of its efforts on bringing communities together, eradicating division within the race and joining forces nationwide to combat the overarching, deeper rooted problems including racism and marginalization.

So, while Sherman may have a point about the need for internal healing, he should have put that ivy-league Stanford education to use to come up with a better argument to criticize a movement that strives to do the very thing he's requesting.

Sherman too damn educated to use Black on Black crime as an excuse as to why the BLM movement hypocritical. Not you too Richard Sherman. smh